Share and annotate phone reports and specific visualizations in iOS and Android report directly from Power BI app.

Authoring and exploration improvements for phone reports in Power BI Desktop and the exploration experience on phones. In Power BI Desktop, with lot of visualizations in a report you can now scroll the visualization pane to browse all available visualizations and add them to phone layout. Another improvement is that now visualizations in the authoring pane are zoomed in so you can see them better and identify each one.

Power BI Desktop in first of this year’s update today released several exciting improvements for tables and matrix and several connector improvements as well. See the list below:

If you are among those who uses Salesforce to manage Accounts, and Power BI to visualize Salesforce data and bring in additional data sources, this walkthrough addresses shows you how to embed a Power BI report in a Visualforce page inside Salesforce, allowing you to view all your data and reports in a single application.

All the Salesforce classes and pages used in this walkthrough are available for download here.

Update 01/12: More new features and updates are available for the Power BI mobile apps:

Android tablet availability (Public Preview): The Power BI mobile experience is now available for Android tablets.

Share insights instantly with new and improved Annotate and Share (iOS): With this update, we have improved the menu and user experience to make it even easier and quicker to annotate and share.

Request access to dashboards directly from your mobile app (iOS): For users who scan a QR and don’t have access to the original dashboard, they can now submit a request for access directly from their mobile app.

Geographic filtering (Android): ability to filter reports based on your current location on Android devices.

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